Complete the dialogue. Work in pairs.
Receptionist: Good afternoon, Sir. What can I do for you?
Petrov: ….
R. Have you booked a room?
P.: Yes, …
R.: Oh, yes, Mr.Petrov, we’ve got your telex of 5th April and we have reserved a single room for you on the fourth floor.
P.: …
R.: Yes, it has a private bathroom and all other modern conveniences. If you like, I can offer you another room on the third floor which is very quiet, but it is smaller and has no TV set in it.
P.: …
R.: You can leave your case here, the porter will take it to your room. Here is your key, Sir. Breakfast is served from 7.30 a.m.
P.: …
R.: You are welcome. I hope you enjoy your stay with us.
Unit 3. My future profession
Topical vocabulary
profession профессия, специальность
responsibility ответственность
the military profession военная специальность
to specialize in специализироваться
to make up one's mind решать
school-leaving certificate аттестат о среднем образовании
job/ occupation занятие, работа
science and technology наука и техника
applied linguistics прикладная лингвистика
lawyer юрист
journalist журналист
interpreter переводчик
scientist ученый
economist экономист
sailor моряк
to choose a career выбирать профессию
general education общее образование
skilled опытный
qualified квалифицированный
employment занятость
dedication посвящение
competence компетенция
commerce торговля 
marketing маркетинг
advertising реклама
promotion продвижение
to apply to the University поступать в университет
(enter the University)
to leave (finish) school заканчивать школу
to get interested in интересоваться
to earn money зарабатывать деньги
to succeed in преуспевать, достигать цели
to work as an accountant работать бухгалтером
to work at an office работать в офисе
Phrases to remember
What is your job? Чем вы занимаетесь?
What are you? Кто вы по профессии?
I wonder, what are you going Интересно, что вы собираетесь
to do after leaving school? делать после окончания школы?
1. Read and translate the text:
Finishing school is the beginning of an independent life for millions of school-leavers. It is the beginning of a far more serious examination of your knowledge, abilities and character. We usually say that all roads are open before our school-leavers: vocational and technical schools, institutes and universities. But actually it is very difficult to make up one's mind and choose one of the hundreds of jobs. While at school I changed my mind a lot of times and couldn't decide which science or field of industry to specialize in.
At schools we have industrial training centers that are supposed to help in choosing a job. Teachers and parents also advise pupils, but still very few of them take a clear-cut view of what they want to do. Generally pupils are not realistic in thinking about jobs. They have dreams of playing football for some big clubs, or becoming pop stars, or heart transplant surgeons or international experts of some kind. Teachers and parents try to channel that enthusiasm into something more realistic, to get the pupils away from their fantasy level without knocking the dream completely. But often it doesn't work and school-leavers get disappointed in life.
While choosing a job many factors should be taken into consideration: wages and salaries, job-satisfaction, opportunities to travel and to see much, etc.
2. Read the text and answer the following questions:
What's An Occupation?
An occupation is a business, trade or employment that occupies one's time either permanently or as a hobby. It's an activity of any kind for which a person has the necessary qualifications and training: "I am by occupation a teacher, and he is by occupation a taxi-driver."
What is a "trade"? A "trade" is a way of making a living, especially a handicraft. He is a carpenter (a tailor) by trade. Shoemaking is a useful trade. Trade schools teach different trades, for example: cooking, furniture-making, operating different machines. In these schools you can get training in any trade you may choose. There are many trades; all of them are important and useful. Why not learn the trade of a turner, a fitter or a bricklayer after you finish school? Workers of these trades are always in great demand.
What is a "profession"? It is an occupation, especially one, requiring advanced education and special training. For example: the law, architecture, teaching, medicine. He is a lawyer by profession.
Some of you may already know what occupation you wish to follow, what you will be by trade or profession. Others of you have not yet made your decision. There are so many different trades and professions today, that it is not easy to decide.
permanent - постоянный
qualification - квалификация
a carpenter - плотник
a tailor - портной
to operate a machine - работать на станке (управлять машиной) .
a turner - токарь
a fitter - слесарь ;
a bricklayer– каменщик
1) What is an occupation?
2) What is your mother's (father's) occupation?
3) What is a trade? What trades do you know?
4) What schools teach different trades?
5) What is a profession?
6) Where can you be taught a profession?
7) What professions can you name?
8) Do you know what trade or profession you will enter?
3. Read and retell the text, use the questions below:
Choosing a profession
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" You have heard this question many times during your school years, haven't you? Perhaps it was difficult for you to give a definite answer, perhaps it wasn't. Perhaps you changed your mind as the years passed about which science or field of industry you would like to specialize in. There are always some boys and girls who know very well what they are going to do after leaving school.
Because of the wide difference in jobs, you should find out all you can about any job which interests you. This can be done by going to the library and by reading widely, and also by talking to adults who have different kinds of jobs. You also need to think about how well you can do what you would like to do.
Perhaps the best way to prepare for any job is to get a good education - to do well at school, and to learn all you can outside of school. Jobs change and new ones are constantly appearing. Some years from now there will be many more new jobs.
1. Is there a great variety of jobs in our country?
2. Can our young people choose any profession they like?
3. Is higher education available to those who work?
4. Is it easy to choose a profession?
5. What profession can you get at the Institute (at the
vocational school)?
6. Who helped you to make your choice?
7. What was your favorite subject at school?
8. Why have you chosen your profession?
9. Do you know much about your future profession?
10. What other jobs do you know?
11. Which of them do you like? Why?
12. What fields of science are you going to apply
your knowledge of English?
4. Discuss with your friend:
a) what professions he knows; what professions he
likes most of all; what his father's (mother's, sister's)
profession is; what he will do if he doesn't enter the Institute.
b) why he has chosen this profession; why he doesn't
want to be an engineer; why he didn't enter the Institute
last year.
c) who influenced the choice of his profession; who his
favorite teacher was; who his teacher of English was.
d) whether he knows much of his profession; whether
he knows about the difficulties of his future profession;
whether his parents are satisfied with his choice.